I hesitate to elevate an Olympics medal dispute to the level of
consternation of the current political crisis in this country. However, it is so
indicative of the great problems of decadence in ethics and fairplay underlying
that crisis, that I feel obligated to do just that.

Obligated because of the appalling "group think" of all American
mass media, the IOC, and American Olympic officials in condoling this egregious
injustice.For those who do not know the details, Olympic judges admitted making what
amounts to math errors in computing the final score of the Korean gymnast in the all-round
mens gymnastic finals routines, giving American Paul Hamm the gold medal (who had
completed a remarkable "comeback" from an initial near-disastrous start). Now
this mistake has been verified by the IOC but they refuse to right the injustice by
upgrading the Korean's bronze medal to gold and lowering Hamm's to silver (still a
remarkable and laudable accomplishment) because the Korean delegation supposedly did not
discover and challenge the result "in-time".Now, in some instances where
mistakes are made there is no reasonable fair recourse; for example if a hurdler crashes
and takes another hurdler out of the race with her (happened to a Russian) ,although I
recognize the injustice,I can see no fair recourse.If the race is rerun then all sorts of
normal occurrences could happen that would not be fair to those who completed the original
race (falls,injury,slower time ...etc).But in this case all routines by everyone were
completed and the error occurred in the final routines.The fair medal shuffle is
obvious,at least to me (and to thousands of Athens Olympics attendants who subsequently
disrupted later events with boos and heckling of gymnastic judges and uninvolved other
American competitors---something they do not deserve while themselves competing in the
best spirit of fair competition; not alone I expect tens of millions of viewers around the
world).

As far as the "too- late" complaint argument is concerned, that
is "crap". If a drug test determines a medal winner is "dirty" the
medal is forfeited even if months afterward.

But that is not the most revealing story here.How in good conscience could
any athlete accept a medal they did not win. What value would it be. How could the
American coaches, officials, media and yes we the public blindly accept the result .And I
expect Hamm has been convinced somehow by those same people that he actually deserves the
thing.Disgusting! I expect this illegitimate "hero" of American media and
arrogance will get a hearty congratulations and "job well done" from our top
illegitimate bastard Bush.

And, I expect that given the American whitewash of this "hero",
most of the public will continue to not get an inkling of "why 'they' hate us
so much".